Word: channelized
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...once again that the hostages be freed. But the request had no impact at all on the Ayatullah for a reason that should have been quite clear to the White House: Gaddafi had no influence with Khomeini. Even more baffling was Brzezinski's use of the unorthodox Billy channel when State Department routes for approaching Gaddafi had been carefully cultivated...
...ship had sat idle for two years in the port of La Spezia, fire broke out on board; when the flames were doused four days later, the Leonardo had leaned over on its starboard side and settled in 40 ft. of water in the port's main channel...
...ideological line. If dissident -which generally means "modernist" -artists are not persecuted as systematically as dissident writers, and fewer of them actually end up laying rails in Siberia or being shot full of drugs in KGB madhouses, this merely reflects the fact that art is not as forceful a channel for maverick ideas as literature. Nevertheless, state approval governs every aspect of the production, exhibition, sale and discussion of painting and sculpture. The essence of totalitarianism is that there must be no gaps in the monolith, nowhere for culture to create its models of dissent...
...many Red Sox games on TV channel 38, which offers good camera work and Hawk Harrelson's witticisms. The Globe's Peter Gammons is arguably the top baseball writer in the nation, and his Sunday columns are special treats. If you enjoy the finer things in life, Wonderland is a good dog track, Suffolk Downs has thoroughbred horse racing and Connecticut has jai-alai. See you around the Hub, sports...
Unless government takes the steps today to channel the fears of Americans towards the right sacrifices--and insures that all segments of society chip in--we will end up making the wrong ones for decades to come. We will fight wars to defend a national interest determined in a few corporate boardrooms. We will continue to polarize our society economically so that a handful maintain their standard of consumption while many sink into an abyss of hopeless misery. Worst of all, as we struggle to save the least desirable qualities of the American way of life, we will lose hold...